and inspiring story. people trust on to tell them what's happening in their community in a clear and unbiased way. and as an african, i couldn't be more proud to be autumn. ah . in ukraine, russian forces intensify their bombardment where you pull a 100000 people who want to leave. the city are tracked by fighting and ukrainian forces take control of a strategic carry on the outskirts of the capital. keep successfully holding off for russian advance. ah, hello barbara, are you watching al jazeera life from london also coming up hundreds of thousands of somali children pushed to the edge of starvation as the country faces the worst,

the drought in 40 years. and in sri lanka, the government amends a controversial new terra law, but refuses to repeal it. ah, hello, thank you for joining us. ukraine's government has appealed to russia to allow emergency supplies into mario, poland, and let out at least a 100000 civilians who want to leave. the port city has been under constant bombardment, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without food, water, or electricity rushes. relentless assault is being mirrored in other major cities including keys and how to keep the same bus ravi begins, are coverage from the western city of live, mar, you, bull, is being bombed into the past. ukrainian se economic infrastructure factories warehouses are non military targets. survivors now suffering war will inevitably

suffer in the future. their livelihoods destroyed. ah, on the ground rushes chechen soldiers hardened fighters continue to push on residential areas and suburbs, waiting to meet them may be ukrainian volunteers like these math actors, singers, artists, all defending their home. see you to 3rd abroad so far old people of volunteers, autumn, who basically never had a gun in their hands. never served in the army. they never thought that they would have a gun in their hands used to, but all of them are with all of their intentions, determined to resist. and this desire just brought all of the militia, when the more mischief was than fear is natural. he says, to control it, you must embrace, oh, a small unit with little training days away from going into the fray. la donna to

block rushes, advance on the capital. mario pl keith turn to give satellite pictures show the russian armies use of artillery where its ground forces have been stalled by lethal ukrainian hit and run attacks each additional vigil in khaki region. another enemy jet was shot down these clue. our forces have already shut down so many russian jets and helicopters that we can only state instead of containing brains, their pilots heads. i empty, you look, i said as well and this is not by accident. their hearts and souls are all so empty . the bombardment of michael ly, of seemingly reaching new lows of brutality. a strike on a hospital for people suffering mental illness of give you this look. how can i put it? i feel so much resentment, and i want to cry because we had a connection between ukraine and russia and russian. cruelty is so brutal listener . there's nothing i can say that bad people. it's not a human way to treat people. it's unkind. i'm just speechless cuz i'm not even

a month into the war. the u. n. world health organization says half a 1000000 of the refugees from ukraine who fled into poland. have problems with their mental health. the pace and the scale of this crisis is unprecedented. as is the strain on the people living it with a number of references. now about half of them, about half a 1000000 requires you born for mental health disorders due to the conflict and about $1030000.00 and we, they said their mental diseases ah, fears fighting continues in residential areas of mary opal setting homes on fire, off the coast of the southern port city ukrainian soldiers reportedly used a guided anti tank missile to sink a russian boat bravo on a job. reduce your unharmed,

but not untouched by the fighting. performers in draw beach have new roles, cooking meals for soldiers on the front lines. the moisture yet the key receive. there is a saying that when the gun sound amuses are silently but we are not silent. we are in the rear. we are engaged in volunteer work because ukraine is in a difficult situation. now. shonasha nash oak, since the invasion began, they've sent thousands of meat balls and dumplings as well as meat stew soup, fish, and pancakes. from here to cave, he as long as their people remain in harm's way for this theatre troop, the show must go on. zen basra v okay, 0 louise evacuations have continued out of where you paul was more than 1000 leaving in humanitarian buses on tuesday. and another 5000 by car, many more though of remain trapped and ukrainian officials say levin empty busters that were meant to evacuate. people were stopped. a russian checkpoints,

they say the bus drivers and emergency workers have been detained. spawn am not the yard would be in the virtual out of the not rights that you would look at. now we have no knowledge as to where the 11 bus drivers and for emergency services workers are. we demand help from the red cross and from the you in who are supposed to ensure and guarantee that along the humanitarian corridors, there will be no arrest or detention of emergency workers. we demand our people are released immediately where ukrainian forces say they've re taken a strategic area. northwest of the capital, keith ukraine's defense ministry, says seizing mccardie will block russian troops from surrounding the capitol in the northwest. but it admitted that russian forces have partially taken 3 other areas near the capital. the city center is relatively quiet. it is under curfew until wednesday, and ukraine's 2nd largest city that's had a key vase being bombarded almost constantly. one of the latest victims has been

identified as a holocaust survivor who lived through 3 nazi concentration camps. most people who remain in the city are living underground. i said beg reports now from her cave silence. there was once a community here, but just as everything silence is broken by the sound of artillery. this house was just, it was soldiers. what regular, those who remain have become accustomed to it. this is milda, deborah bob. 10 minutes ago they were firing like crazy heroes. they were really pounding the area up the road. this is a residential area where it happens a lot about probably every half hour they reload her was on me serious for him and they bring him going and across the street we meet 69 year old lead of or been a cover. but i'm shown the courtroom, the younger daughter, she said she doesn't want to leave a house because a husband can't walk and they don't want to be

a burden on others. do it. her neighbourhood is under constant attack, or ching no longer yet another. it's scary, they hid here and there, half the street is destroyed. ukraine save us. where with you. we're told it's unsafe. we must leave the area because of the ongoing artillery. you can hear that going from the incoming and can also hit him landing. in the distance and to see smoke on the horizon does not hardly anybody left her. because her foot in the shadow of war, it seems only the elder, the left here revealed little for this school providing a vital to monitoring lifeline on us. so i will good you, does this been our house is safe, but a 100 meters away from us. people got killed. their bodies were in pieces. they

were people i knew is known additionally, not far from here. an apartment block was hit holocaust survivor original mon jenko lived here. now the taking away what's left is flooded after shell, which is flat for arsenic fall through. there was a terrible shooting. it was not a bam. more of a whistle through it. 3 terrible whistles you think you bring, who's in trauma chunk or survived 3 nazi concentration camps in world war 2. vladimir putin says he is fighting nazis, but it's not, not is that killed roman jenko. it was russian artillery. i said big, i'll da 0. how to give the head of the world said program, meanwhile, is warning. there will be disaster after disaster if the war in ukraine doesn't end quickly. sh, david beasley told our diplomatic editor james raised the countries that facing fannin will be hardest hit. this is a nation,

it produces enough food for 400000000 people around the world. if we don't in this war and get their economy going again. so they're planting and harvesting. we're going to have a global supply problem later this year. this will be catastrophe on top of catastrophe if we don't act now. strategically and quickly. it could be hell on earth. so not just the people who we're seeing right now die in ukraine. do you believe the consequences of this in terms of food insecurity? potential famine could kill many more. i don't have enough money now before you crane. i was already because of supply any supply chain issues like fuel cost, shipping cost and food cost before ukraine. i was already cutting 8000000 people to 50 percent rashes in yemen. 50 percent rash is an easier 50 percent rashes. and chad and i can keep going around the world. now. we'll have

a supply chain issue because ukraine produces between them and russia. 20 to 30 percent of all the grain in the world for corn, major, we, etc, etc. and so if you neglect the racial world just for ukraine, you, you've got to deal with ukraine, helped the people that need help there. but you can't neglect what's happening. the middle east or northern africa, otherwise you go have millions upon millions migrating here. europe. this is no free lunch here. you go pay for one way. the other, the best thing to do is get ahead of it and stop the storm from getting worse. now little earlier, i spoke to jason stanley, a professor of philosophy, yale university, and author of the book, how fascism works. he gave us his view, one why putin decided to invent ukraine. potent target is that has always been democracy. ah, he seeks to show that democracy anywhere is really just just a facade for a, for some kind of ultra nationalism white supremacy,

something like this. so he seeks to show that, i mean democracy is an existential threat to rod to pollutants regime, right? because if the people of, of russia see this fairly arriving state kaneesha next to them that replace as its leaders, that it replaces its leaders and o actions. then they're going to see that, that sort of thing as possible when they see the standard of living of the country next to them. and later when they see that the country can replace its leaders by elections, that's a threat to, to, to russia and pollutants regime. regime, so his enemy is rural democracy. still to come here on al jazeera in russia, kremlin critic alexi nevada is sentenced to 9 years in a maximum security prison after he's found guilty of fraud and contempt of court. ah

thanks for joining in the way we go with your weather update beginning in china. we've got some solid bands of rain for southern sections. this is clipping hong kong and over the next few days, it's going to be a soggy forecast to be sure rain heavy at times periods of rain and your temperature at $25.00 on friday, which is a bit above average heavy rainfall, weather alerts in play. also for southern sections of japan, we'll call it pretty much shows saca into cargo shima tokyo the sun's out with the hiv 11 degrees. but just a few days ago you saw some more snow. so certainly an improvement in the conditions here, off to southeast asia, getting striped with salt bands of rain across java's, the risk of flooding we have seen flooding just outside of call and poor destroying about a 100000 homes. i should say. down under australia looks like this, we're going to tap into an onshore flow, so that's going to scoop up moisture and shove it into the coastline for new south

wales. going for a closer look, i'll take this out into the weekend and we see that rain pivot into queensland. so both of these states queens on in new south wales are still trying to recover from extreme flooding. so this is certainly not good news. there's been deadly flooding in auckland and look at all this rain coming your way for the escape. could see some severe thunderstorms here. that's it for now. see as soon ah, a sanctuary for journalists. it was a haven from the wall and shelter for civilian refugees. were scattered into the garden during cambodia as bloody st. off flooring us to leave. and suddenly we were turning up, axel, the co rouge, had taken anything of value out of the cambodian lip, a new episode of war hotels on all jazeera.

ah, ah ah, a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, ukraine's government has appealed to russia to allow emergency supplies into murray or forge and let out at least a 100000 civilians who want to leave. the port city has been under continuous bombardment, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without food, water, or electricity. ukrainian military forces have taken control of the strategic area of the car even keeps outskirts, hoping to block russian troops from surrounding the capitol in the northwest. and the head of the world food program says the war in ukraine could have a catastrophic effect on global food supplies. ukraine and russia account for

a 3rd of global wheat and barley exports, which countries in the middle east, asia and africa rely on to feed millions of people. that the united states says nato will respond if one of its members comes under a cyber attack from russia. official say russia could hack into government and business systems as revenge for economic sanctions. this is present and joe biden prepared to travel to belgium and poland. this week al jazeera is alan fischer. reports us says it's seeing the foundation of russian cyber attacks on the us. it's monitoring scanning efforts. essentially, hackers probing for weak sports. national security advisor jim sullivan says any such attack on a nito member will bring a coordinated response. we could see circumstances in which a collective response by the alliance to a cyber attack would be called by an outline. that is absolutely something where we

and other countries could bring capabilities to bear to help a country both defend itself and respond to a particular cyber attack. now, that's not necessarily the same thing as a military response. that response could take many different forms when president biden and put met in geneva last year. the us president said key areas of infrastructure should be off limits to cyber attack. that was in response to the 2020 solar winds, attack. federal severs were hit, 30000 private companies and public organizations impacted. washington says the russian foreign intelligence service was behind that hack and addressing business leaders on monday. your bike want them to get ready. the magnitude of russia cyber capacity is fairly consequential. and it's coming federal government is doing this part to get ready. but let me be absolutely clear about something. it's not just if you're interested or stake with or potential use of cybersecurity, it is the national interest. the russian government denies its planning cyber

attack thing. it would not resort to what it calls banditry, but officials here believe it's a way for russia to strike back at the u. s. for providing weapons to ukraine without escalating the actual fighting. alan fisher, i'll just either at the white house floods may a proteins last political opponent has been moved to a maximum security prison after being found guilty of fraud and contempt of court. alexson of al need denies allegations that he embezzled donations from his anti corruption foundation. calling the charges politically motivated, he was sentenced to a further 9 years in prison. vernon smith reports from moscow. the last outspoken political opponent of russia's president appeared in a prison court room in a black prison uniform looking gold. the judge found alexei in the valley guilty of fraud and contempt of court, the sentence 9 years jail in

a maximum security prison. when the valley spoke, the video feed from the court room to journalists was cut, so his supporters posted his comments online. you can't put every one in prison, even if you ask for a 113 years, you won't skim your others like me. every person must act in their own way as they can, considering the circumstances, but act as the val his lawyer spoke outside the prison police with loud hale as tried to drown them out, you see a synopsis. of course, we will appeal the verdict that we were not able to use a recording device. i have digital copies of the case papers. so this was incorrect procedure on top of the fact that it was taking place in the prison, which is very rare. it's just over a year since alexis of only returned to russia from germany, he'd been given medical treatment after a poison attack with a nerve agent during a visit to siberia. within minutes of his plane landing the valley was arrested was

he's not been out of jail since nev only was russia's main opposition leader. he tried to run for president in the election in 2018, but was barred from standing. he's anti corruption foundation was declared an extremist organisation and shut down than in february. last year. the valley was jailed for 2 and a half years for parole violations charges. he says we're trumped up to silence him . not as of right now. put in would like to keep alexi in prison for as long as he is in our we are completely sure since this is hinderance order to imprison alex he, ah, there were demonstrations in several russian cities against novalis treatment, particularly after he went on hunger strike. there's little chance of anything like this this year. any recent attempts to protest against the war in ukraine had been

snuffed out before they started. alexa valley tried to keep up his campaigning from prison, with his lawyers, hosting messages on instagram, but that's now banned here. and with nev only being moved to a maximum security, prison is unlikely. we're going to hear from him many years. bernard smith, al jazeera moscow. the un is warning. somalia needs immediate attention to avoid a repeat of the 2011 famine disaster with the country in the groups of its worst drought in 40 years. 4000000 people in the country are facing the risk of starvation as it enters this 3rd consecutive dry season. more than half a 1000000 farmers and herders have lost their crops and animals. this is caused inflation and surging food and water prices. the u. n says more than 300000 children in somalia are already severely malnourished. a warning, some viewers may find the images and malcolm was report district

this is what somali as drought, whatever has done to this 3 year old boy. his father de la d mohammed was a farmer who all his crops died last month. they joined hundreds of thousands of people who were leaving their homes for make shift camps. but there wasn't enough food or water in the camp either. i left my wife in the camp. she was also sick. i had been here for 14 days with my son in the hospital and is slowly making recovery day after day. the u. n says more than a 1000000 children and malnourished a 3rd of them severely. after the last 3 rainy seasons failed. crops and animals have been wiped out. children who are among the most vulnerable, the lucky ones get medical help across southern somalia. sarah p take feeding

centers a full like this one in the town of look somali as have famines before doctor shook the hussein up the says she's never seen anything like this. she works here for the irish charity tro care. more suited them until the game monday, post me admitted according to who this is more market. most people here heard these animals include cropped on the banks of the rivers. it till they dried up. this was somebody's name, survival, livestock can eat. little grows on the thorny bushes and turn it into milk. meat, an income, now carcasses a, scattering this whole area. people say 1st, the crops died when the animals died too, they had no choice to walk here to the edge of the town and set up

a camp. people use what they can to shelter from the dust in the sun. conditions on good. many children here need help, but humanitarian agencies say they have less than 3 percent of the money they need . any help is too late for how to data is acts daughter and her 4 grandchildren, who she says, died on the way here. one family, the children died while we were walking. we did not have any kind of transport. if only we had transport, they would have survived. we could not get food or water, so they could not walk. that's why they died. nobody's even counted how many malnourished children of already died. the next rains driven april help is needed now. malcolm web al jazeera, southern somalia, voice chest sheer coffee is a spokesman for the humans refugee agency. he told us

a little earlier about the challenges faced by somalis when they arrive at displacement, the caps. lucy with these kids. these are women, or pregnant lactating mothers, older people. they're moving into urban settlements. they're going into places which are already hosting displaced people. so marya already placing one of the worst internal to placement crises, 2900000 people that have moved because of the conflict in the country. and now the settlements where people are coming from drugs affected areas, conditions are getting worse, crowding is becoming worse as well. and we are struggling to provide them with this care. human rights watch has accused uganda security services of committing what it calls horrific abuses against government. critics. the rights group says hundreds of opposition supporters have been targeted over the past 3 years, especially around last year's election president that you were in was 70, has condemned to torture, but campaign,

or is accused his government of condoning the arbitrary arrests and abuse ex detainees have reported being raped, beaten, electrocuted, or injected with unknown substances. and m a. when those, the ugandan journalist, he says it's difficult to know which arm of government is responsible. it's good with that, the brother to them. you see, if you have different amazon government armed with the guns and iran is shooting, how do you establish culpability? that is either the i made a police or the local defence units that shot and killed people. so there was such confusion. it is difficult to establish individual culpability wise of just be reading this runners report. they say they want to punish those who short, it's difficult to even know who shot and therefore hard individually accountable individuals in a government. now decide, well of course is the elections. there were a series of abductions over people considered to be political coordinates. and this before to be thickened even good edition facilities as well. this problem with this

one is government lucas directly. they had to thugs who to call a shadow, stick to a back. guys were coming with heavy guns wearing switch and gloves wearing a braving civilian cars and abducting people. so it was very difficult to say that this is the police. this is that i made, this is elaine goodness services. sir lanka has amended, it's anti terror laws after local and international pressure. the government says the changes are a substantial improvement opposition parties in human rights activists. though this agree may now fernandez reports from colombo, a cup of tea and family dime, things usually taken for granted. knock for this man. he does his bullet home on bail on to spending nearly 2 years in detention. and noah was accused of involvement in the 2019 easter attacks that kill $269.00 people were charged 10 months later, under shall anchors, prevention of terrorism,

activating heat speech and creating communities, harmony. his detention drew local and international condemnation and demands for his release. the audi navi, the, all my a p d, a detainee has no lawyer has no media attention has no choice on media talking about it is nothing. so then it's a complete state of hopelessness and that yona huge legal black hole. and that's the feeling that a lot of these, not of them have the law, also known as the p. t allows the police to detain suspects without trial. it also lets courts convict suspects solely based on confessions many faith used to stifle dissent and curve position that it on tuesday the government voted to change its low dow bravado. it follows years of treasure from home and abroad to repeal or change the 43 year old legislation, bears amending legislation strikes

a perceptive balance. having regard to all the changes which are taken place in our country during the last 43 years. we have written down the provisions of the prevention of that or to m act, we have diminished. it's a rigidity in a manner that is appropriate to the present stage of development of sri lankan society. we have stopped short of abolishing it altogether. determined lashonda lion says the changes don't go far enough. that was talked about probably shouldn't be. did that. can persons with the police officers being admissible as evidence against that person and even got used for that better? still renee, you haven't touched it. amanda dins thought he has started a nation wide signature campaign, urging the government to repeal the p t. d. c. they have collected more than 100000 signatures. so far, the government says the changes are

a substantial improvement of the existing security law and has this missed calls for a full repeal. but the opposition says it's an attempt to mislead every one. saying the most worrying sections of the law are still intact. michelle fernandez alger 0, colombo ah, and now the top stories on al jazeera, ukraine's government has appealed to russia to allow emergency supplies into mary up hall and let out at least a 100000 civilians who want to leave. the port city has been under continuous bombardment leaving hundreds of thousands of people without food, water, or electricity.